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Twenty Thanksgivings ago I wrote my first article for a newspaper. I called it “Thanksgiving is a Holiday That Needs to Grow on You.” It was 1997. My wife, Joyce, and I lived in a little apartment with our baby girl in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland. I was reacquainted with the story while…

The Shoes I sat in on an interesting case at the justice center recently. The judge was getting ready to sentence the defendant, armed robbery, when the lowlife said, “don’t judge me, Your Honor, until you’ve walked a mile in my shoes.” Well the justice center is located a few blocks from a university that…

I am 50 feet in, chained by my ankle to the base of a tree. On clear days I can see people in the street: joggers and power walkers, mothers pushing strollers, boys skateboarding down a hill. How long have I been here? The newspaper would say 9 years. BRIGHT YOUNG EXECUTIVE, 31, DISAPPEARS. I…

On my door hangs an American flag that ripples like gentle waves on warm summer days. Inside there are things. Things made by people, much like the flag on my door. The bookcase has little square cubicles for laying paperbacks and textbooks flat. A myriad of streets and hamlets that tell stories about faraway lands.…